Rationale for Child Life Practice
This practice is important to help prevent negative impacts on a child's development.
Child life is beneficial in settings that involve these groups of people.
What are children and families?
What is assess?
A certified child life specialist must pass this to be credentialed.
What is a certification exam?
Child Life Specialists should use this to continuously inform their work.
What is evidence-based research?
Child Life Specialists must maintain and increase this to have a positive impact on a family.
What is positive family functioning?
Some examples of community settings that child life may be present in are?
Adoption agencies, child advocacy programs, foster care, judicial system, funeral homes, dental clinics, camps, school systems, disaster relief services.
To promote resilience in children child life specialists should provide these types of explanations to children.
What are developmentally appropriate explanations?
What is 6000 hours?
Child life professionals advocate for equal access through this.
What is accessibility?
These types of relationships create a safe environment for children and families.
What are therapeutic relationships?
Can child life be present in for-profit and not-for-profit organizations?
yes
Child life specialists should communicate with these people to be sure that recommendations are completed.
Who are other professionals?
What is one qualification a CCLS must demonstrate?
Development knowledge, play interventions, psychological preparation, trauma response, coping intervention, family systems, grief and loss
Child life specialists must pay attention to this in order to keep safe amounts of space for necessary activities.
What is environmental considerations?